PUFENDORF Samuel, A Discourse by M. Samuel Pufendorf, upon the Alliances Between Sweden and France:

A Discourse by M. Samuel Pufendorf, upon the Alliances Between Sweden and France:

Wherein is shewn, how ill the same were observ'd on the part of France. Written in the Year 1680, by the express command of K. Charles XI of Sweden. To which is annex'd, the advice or remonstrance of some of the Royal Senate at Stockholm in 1671. Upon the question, of the crown of Sweden's entering into a league with France and England against Holland. Translated into English by J. Ozell. London 1709. printed for Sam. Buckley. (20.5 x 13 cm), f. [1], pp. V, 72, V, 96, binding pperg. Secondary.
Traces of non-moisture, Rolf G. Norberg's exlibris on the facing page. Good condition. First English translation of Pufendorf's anti-French work (published in the same year as the first French one). The first part of the pagination contains the original Latin text, and the second part contains the English translation. The original was published posthumously in The Hague in 1708. Pufendorf's text was written at the request of Charles XI in 1680, in connection with the planned Swedish-French alliance. Pufendorf writes about the negative experience of alliances with France, which always broke promises and treaty arrangements.